Fixing import errors and discouraging pushes

[Barry Warsaw]

On Dec 03, 2012, at 09:56 PM, Steve Langasek wrote:

>On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 06:14:19PM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>> >On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 04:07:47PM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>> >> I think we should (almost) never allow users to push to ubuntu: or debianlp:
>> >> branches, or at least, highly discourage it.  Just do the upload and let the
>> >> importer create the new revisions and it seems like that avoids a lot of
>> >> headaches and failures.
>
>> >If we're not going to allow pushing to the branches, then I don't think
>> >they're useful at all.  It's *only* for having rich branch history that I
>> >use these branches, and if they're not going to be usable that way I would
>> >discontinue my use of them altogether, moving the packages I maintain
>> >somewhere else for their primary VCS.
>
>> That's interesting, because I think source branches have a lot of benefit
>> over apt-get source by themselves.
>
>They do, but those aren't actually the options I'm picking between.  I'm
>picking between being able to use lp:ubuntu/$package as the VCS for the
>packages I maintain, and having to maintain the VCS elsewhere.

Gotcha, yes in those cases, I definitely agree with you!

I was thinking about purely packaging branches which don't also serve as
upstream.

Cheers,
-Barry
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